A characterization of cosmological time functions

DOI10.1023/A:1014237721687MaRDI QIDQ1597444zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manuel Fernández-López, Demir N. Kupeli, Eduardo García-Río

Publication date 30 May 2002

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1014237721687

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian warped product decompositionreference framesstable causalitystress energy tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Review text

Let (\(M, g\)) be an \(n\)-dimensional spacetime manifold. A future-directed unit timelike vector field \(Z\) on \(M\) is called a synchronizable reference frame if and only if \(M\) is stable causal. In this paper, the authors study a cosmological spacetime \(M\), which obeys the Einstein equation for a fluid stress-energy tensor whose flow vector field is a synchronizable reference frame \(Z\). They prove that a time function characterized in this way yields past timelike geodesic incompleteness and a local Lorentzian warped product decomposable space time.

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